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What book is everyone writing right now?

Completed a four volume historical novel series a while back and received my proof for the first volume today!

A few shifting images and oddities here and there but editors and printers are all abandoning the effort for the holidays.

Is the tradition in this tread to put up the cover once its on Amazon?
 
Hans said:
Completed a four volume historical novel series a while back and received my proof for the first volume today!

A few shifting images and oddities here and there but editors and printers are all abandoning the effort for the holidays.

Is the tradition in this tread to put up the cover once its on Amazon?
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Four volumes? Are you a professor or is this an individual effort?

I don't remember what the board rules are but I hope to share my book when it's done.
 
Just heard today that the press committee at Louisiana State University Press voted to accept my book, and it's on the list for the spring 2017 catalog, which means I'll need to spend some time in the next few months okaying the copyediting and doing the index. It's a biography of an interstate slave trader, and his inlaws who were connected with the underground railroad and anti-slavery movement.
 
Pup said:
Just heard today that the press committee at Louisiana State University Press voted to accept my book, and it's on the list for the spring 2017 catalog, which means I'll need to spend some time in the next few months okaying the copyediting and doing the index. It's a biography of an interstate slave trader, and his inlaws who were connected with the underground railroad and anti-slavery movement.
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That sounds interesting. What did you use for historical sources? Just curious.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
That sounds interesting. What did you use for historical sources? Just curious.
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You name it! Court cases, letters, deeds, newspaper articles, censuses, tax records, any little scrap I could find to piece it all together.
 
Pup said:
You name it! Court cases, letters, deeds, newspaper articles, censuses, tax records, any little scrap I could find to piece it all together.
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I love history that comes from every day data sources like letters and such. How exciting.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Four volumes? Are you a professor or is this an individual effort?

I don't remember what the board rules are but I hope to share my book when it's done.
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Individual effort covering a British Ensign's journey to India, joining the Bombay Artillery and taking part in an expedition into what they then called "Independent Tartary", Central Asia to us.

Yeah I was once a college teacher.....
 
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Hi folks

I wanted to thank all the members here for their help in getting this book published. Many of you answered questions in this thread and others about 19th century subjects.

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/09...f the crown&qid=1453223487&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

I see the formatting of the info for the book sucks so will have to go back and html that again.

An Officer Of The Crown is a historical novel written in the style of an illustrated 19th century journal. David Alexander Driscol is the eighteen- year-old middle-class son of a retired regimental sergeant major of Anglo-Irish and Danish descent and presently an Ensign in the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry, his father’s old regiment. Ensign Driscol is headed to India and on the way will meet with many high and low adventures. He encounters Lieutenant Perkins of the Royal Engineers and Madras sapper who is forming an expedition and Driscol is the first man recruited for the expedition. Lieutenant Perkins is a consummate rake and source of wonder, embarrassment and bewilderment to the younger naïve Driscol.

Driscol is an eccentric young man, an Englishman who hates tea, alcohol, horses, dogs and Frenchmen but loves books, collects recipes, loves cats and is studying Persian and Arabic to become an explorer and not only an army officer his father wishes him to be. Driscol is in conflict with his own weaknesses inflicted with disabling haemophobia and acrophobia; he struggles with society as a whole and British bureaucracy in particular. He must also hide his dislike of the dominant Anglican religion. He confronts many obstacles on his path to India where he hopes to obtain his desire of becoming an explorer and to ‘shake the pagoda tree’, to make his fortune. He also hopes to find out more about those delightful creatures called women.

The book and series is written to appeal to those outstanding and well-thinking people who have enjoyed books by the following authors:

E.M. Forester, Patrick O’Brian, George Fraser, Joseph Conrad, Jack London, Bernard Cornwell, Jules Verne, Kipling, Haggard, Doyle, Defoe, Hemmingway, Wouk, Monserrat, Burroughs, Mallinson, Turtledove, Toole (Confederacy of Dunces), and G.T. Henty; additionally science fiction authors such as Phillip Dick, De Camp, Stirling, Burroughs, Brunner and others who wrote about high adventure on other planets/places/dimensions/alternative time lines. Readers of 19th century history books and military campaigns of the Victorian era will also find An Officer of the Crown of great interest.
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My book's in third draft and is around 98,600 words long. I now consider it finished, and will start looking for an agent as soon as I've got time to spare.
 
Congratulations, Hans!

I'm working on three books right now. One is a refutation of the Apollo hoax theories. I'm aiming at about 85,000 words and I'm about half done with the first draft. It's essentially the same material as is covered in my web site. Apogee is the likely publisher.

Another is in its outline stage, and is a more general work on conspiracism and fringe argumentation. I don't have a publisher yet.

The third is on applying techniques and principles from classical engineering to software. That's a project I started in the 1990s and shelved, but have decided to resurrect because of what I see as a general decline in the competence of software writers. Random House was the original publisher.
 
JayUtah said:
Congratulations, Hans!

I'm working on three books right now. One is a refutation of the Apollo hoax theories. I'm aiming at about 85,000 words and I'm about half done with the first draft. It's essentially the same material as is covered in my web site. Apogee is the likely publisher.

Another is in its outline stage, and is a more general work on conspiracism and fringe argumentation. I don't have a publisher yet.

The third is on applying techniques and principles from classical engineering to software. That's a project I started in the 1990s and shelved, but have decided to resurrect because of what I see as a general decline in the competence of software writers. Random House was the original publisher.
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Howdy Jay

The first two would be of great interest to me and your third is an observation I have made also and have noted others saying the same thing. I wonder if it comes from SWE using coding from earlier endeavors and not doing the hard work of building from scratch?

..or has the easy stuff been done and the coding to be done know is more complex?

An interesting development for me is that a local publisher seeing the book was published has expressed an interest in it.
 
Twitter users, who have a book but not a publisher or agent. Check this out.

tl;dr: An agency is soliciting tweets about tour unpublished novel on Friday, 29th Jan, from which their agents will pick out new authors to contact.
 
Hans said:
I wonder if it comes from SWE using coding from earlier endeavors and not doing the hard work of building from scratch?

..or has the easy stuff been done and the coding to be done know is more complex?
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It goes a lot deeper than that, in my opinion. But those factors are considerable.
 
Changed my storyline and needed a title change to go with it. Mine is now to be called Khan Tiki!
 
Ian Osborne said:
Twitter users, who have a book but not a publisher or agent. Check this out.

tl;dr: An agency is soliciting tweets about tour unpublished novel on Friday, 29th Jan, from which their agents will pick out new authors to contact.
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That looks interesting. Think I'll take a bit of time to look into it. I'm getting closer to the pitch stage.

The first half of my book is in excellent shape. I love it. My hardest critic loves it. The middle and end are 90% done and I'm working on the last edit now. At 130,000 words I have plenty of room to cut cut cut so I can get rid of anything that isn't absolutely perfect.

The important thing is, the more I work on it, the more I want to work on it and not the other way around. I believe I actually have a decent book here. :thumbsup:
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
That looks interesting. Think I'll take a bit of time to look into it. I'm getting closer to the pitch stage.

The first half of my book is in excellent shape. I love it. My hardest critic loves it. The middle and end are 90% done and I'm working on the last edit now. At 130,000 words I have plenty of room to cut cut cut so I can get rid of anything that isn't absolutely perfect.

The important thing is, the more I work on it, the more I want to work on it and not the other way around. I believe I actually have a decent book here. :thumbsup:
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Yeah I know the feeling my series came in just under 650,000 words, I love the writing and creation but the editing and fiddling with the 100's of images gets tiresome at times.
 
JayUtah said:
It goes a lot deeper than that, in my opinion. But those factors are considerable.
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I would imagine. I did lots of coding in the early years and later taught Visual Basic and Javascripting....I don't think I could code 2+2 nowadays.

Let us know when you published I'd be interested in the full story.
 
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